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Ann Coulter, top US conservative: 'Ukraine not America's business'

Ann Coulter
© AFP/Paul J. RichardsAnn Coulter
Conservative US author Ann Coulter has argued that the US and UK "have [their] own problems" and shouldn't care about Ukraine, which she pointed out was historically under Russian influence. With British broadcaster Piers Morgan vehemently disagreeing, Coulter blamed the expansion of the NATO alliance for the current conflict.

Speaking to Morgan on Thursday, Coulter declared "on the NATO thing, I'm with Noam Chomsky, Pat Buchannan, George Kennan, once the Soviet Union fell there's no point to NATO, and we keep encroaching, encroaching, encroaching," referring to the alliance's expansion into Eastern Europe since the fall of the USSR, something its leaders assured Russia it would not do.

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Coffee

Pandering to leftists: Starbucks gets what it asked for

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© Bastiaan Slabbers/NurPhoto via ZUMA PressProtesters gather inside the Starbucks location in Center City Philadelphia, PA on April 15, 2018 where days earlier two black men were arrested.
It's an iconic duo: urban liberals and Starbucks. Wherever you are, you can almost always find a Starbucks and a group of lefties.

The company has carefully built this image. It has regularly funded explicitly and implicitly anti-white policies including ruthless affirmative action, deliberately hiring non-whites, and showily boycotting Christmas by using "holiday" cups.

In 2015, when the "Great Awokening" began, Starbucks challenged Americans to talk more about race. They did not mean for Americans to talk about it the way American Renaissance does. "Of the hundreds of large companies that truckle to racial orthodoxy, Starbucks might be the worst," said Martin Rojas in 2020. CEO Howard Schultz even considered running for president in 2012, 2016, and 2020. Starbucks is Woke Capital at its worst.

However, Starbucks could never overcome a fatal contradiction. The company represented upscale urban living, a refuge from the seedier realities of the city. Starbucks coffee is expensive, perhaps a deliberate choice to weed out undesirable customers; a survey in 2013 found customers cared more about good service than good coffee.

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NPC

Social contagion? Teen girls mimic tics after watching Tourette's videos on Tiktok

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Teen girls around the world have begun reenacting tics after watching popular influencers with Tourette's syndrome on TikTok. When the pandemic began in 2020, while many were shuttered indoors relying heavily on social media, neurologists began seeing droves of teen girls reporting the sudden onset of physical and verbal tics.

Omar Danoun, MD, a neurologist at Henry Ford Health, believes that it is induced by watching TikTok influencers with Tourette's Syndrome. He explains that because they're watching these videos so often, their brains start to mimic the tics.

"What these teen girls have are called functional tics — it's a functional neurological disorder," said Dr. Danoun. "We've seen this before in children who have parents or siblings with seizures. They'll develop functional seizures. The brain imitates what it sees. It's used as an escape mechanism."

Comment: Is it entirely a social contagion or could there be something else that is causing a neurological disorder in these young girls. Maybe a certain experimental gene therapy they underwent? It's hard to know for sure, but you can bet that this particular possibility won't be given any airtime.


See also: The Truth Perspective: The Strange Contagion: How Viral Thoughts and Emotions Secretly Control Us


Eye 1

UK companies may face 'action' if they downplay climate risk, watchdogs say

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© REUTERS/Matthew Childs/File PhotoSmoke rises above a factory at sunset in Rugby, Britain February 10, 2021.
Some of Britain's top listed companies could be downplaying risks from climate change on their bottom line and could face "appropriate action", regulators said on Friday.

Trillions of dollars have flowed into stocks and bonds of companies which tout their environmental, social and governance (ESG) credentials, leaving regulators worried about "greenwashing" or companies flattering their green profile to attract investments.

Companies listed on the London Stock Exchange's premium market have been required since 2021 to make climate-related disclosures to investors in line with the global Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) - or to explain why they have not.

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Bizarro Earth

Video shows Italian man beat Nigerian street trader to death 'after he said his girlfriend was beautiful'

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Police in Italy have arrested a 32-year-old man following the murder of a Nigerian street vendor whose brutal murder was filmed by onlookers who made no attempt to physically intervene
A man beat a Nigerian street trader to death in broad daylight in Italy after allegedly flying into a rage when the victim said his girlfriend was beautiful.

Nigerian street vendor Alika Ogorchukwu, 39, was beaten to death by an Italian, identified as Filippo Claudio Giuseppe Ferlazzo, in Civitanova Marche's busy town centre, a beach town on the Adriatic Sea, on Friday.

Ferlazzo became infuriated when Mr Ogorchukwu told the man's girlfriend she was beautiful, claimed Daniel Amanza, who runs the ACSIM association for immigrants in the Marche region's Macerata province.

Comment: Footage of what appears to be the fight can be found on Twitter




People 2

BBC faces backlash over claims it is 'disappearing women' by allowing 50/50 male and female target quota to be filled by transgender guests

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The BBC is facing backlash over claims that it is 'disappearing women' as a sex by allowing its 50/50 male and female quota to be filled by transgender guests.
The BBC is facing backlash over claims that it is 'disappearing women' as a sex by allowing its 50/50 male and female target quota to be filled by transgender guests.

BBC news presenter Ros Atkins is at the centre of a trans row following the corporations 50:50 project, an initiative he founded in 2017 that aims to increase the number of women on air and on screen.

The project has seen the BBC increase the salaries of some of its most high-profile women such as Zoe Ball and increase the number of female stars in its shows such as Line of Duty.

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Attention

Iraqi protesters storm parliament again

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© Getty Images / Murtadha Al Sudani/Anadolu AgencySupporters of Iraq's influential Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr protest inside the Iraqi Parliament on July 30, 2022.
Hundreds of protesters breached the parliament for the second time in a week as anti-government unrest continues.

A large crowd of protesters stormed Baghdad's heavily-guarded Green Zone and broke into the Iraqi parliament again on Saturday. The demonstrators were expressing their dissatisfaction with "the corrupt political class" and a candidate for prime minister whose nomination some ten months following the last federal election prompted a political crisis.

Protesters were seen using ropes to bring down large concrete slabs surrounding the Green Zone, a district housing government buildings and foreign missions, including the US embassy, footage from the scene shows.

No Entry

Twitter censors all content from The Epoch Times

UPDATE: Twitter has halted its censorship of content from The Epoch Times following a flood of public criticism.

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© Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty ImagesThe Twitter logo is seen on a sign at the company's headquarters in San Francisco, California on Nov. 4, 2016.
Twitter on July 28 imposed a blockade on all content from The Epoch Times without explanation, raising further concerns about freedom of speech on the platform and drawing ire from three U.S. senators.

The platform enforced a warning on all links from The Epoch Times. A click on a link directs users to a page titled "Warning: this link may be unsafe," which prompts users to return to the previous page.

"The link you are trying to access has been identified by Twitter or our partners as being potentially spammy or unsafe," the warning stated, citing Twitter's URL policy.


Dollar

Billionaire-funded eco group quietly taking farmland out of production in rural America

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The American Prairie (AP), a conservation project in Montana, has quietly scooped up more than 450,000 acres of land with the help of its billionaire donors and the federal government.

The little-known project aims to create the largest "fully functioning ecosystem" in the continental U.S. by stitching together about 3.2 million acres of private and public lands, according to the American Prairie Foundation, which founded the reserve more than 20 years ago. The group has recorded 34 transactions spanning roughly 453,188 acres of land throughout central Montana — much of which were once used for farming and grazing — since 2004 and continues to aggressively expand.

Pete Geddes, AP's vice president and chief external relations officer, told Fox News Digital in an interview:
"Our mission is to assemble the largest complex of public and private lands devoted to wildlife in the lower 48. For comparison, about 25% larger than Yellowstone."

"We're not asking the federal government to create anything, we're not asking the federal government for any money. Instead, we're engaged in private philanthropy and voluntary exchange by buying ranches from people who would like to sell that to us."
The American Prairie Foundation has raised tens of millions of dollars in recent years, according to recent tax filings, thanks in large part to its donors, which include well-known Wall Street and Silicon Valley magnates. Hansjoerg Wyss, a Swiss financier and mega-donor of liberal causes, deceased German retail mogul Erivan Haub, John Mars, the heir to the Mars candy fortune, and Susan Packard Orr, daughter of the Hewlett-Packard Co. co-founder, have all donated to AP, Bloomberg previously reported. The AP said about 3% of its contributions have come from international donors. Geddes said:
"It's an area that doesn't have a lot of people in it and has been depopulating for a long, long time. So, the thinking was, perhaps there's greater potential for less conflict over conservation in this part of the world."
However, AP's plans have faced increasing pushback from top state officials and local ranchers who argue such a nature reserve would remove key land from production and negatively impact surrounding privately-owned lands. Using its donor funds, the group has purchased about 118,000 acres of private land and leased another 334,000 acres of public land owned primarily by the federal government.

Microscope 2

Scientists are undermining our trust in science

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© Getty ImagesAlzheimer's Disease
Autism and COVID-19 research have also been marred by misrepresentation, raising issues about what "trust in science" should mean

A just-published exposé in the journal Science claims that a seminal study on the causes of Alzheimer's disease may contain falsified data.

The 2006 report concluded that Alzheimer's is caused by a buildup of a certain type of plaque in the brain — a finding that has guided research into cures for Alzheimer's ever since. But now, critics claim that the original authors "appeared to have composed figures by piecing together parts of photos from different experiments" calling their conclusions into significant question.

If true, this is a scientific scandal of the worst order. As the Science article notes, the questionable study strongly influenced the funding of research into treatments, with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) spending $1.6 billion pursuing the plaque hypothesis this fiscal year. Even worse, if scientific mistakes in the study were not caught during peer review because of data manipulation, it deprived Alzheimer's researchers investigating other hypotheses of badly needed funding, perhaps delaying the development of effective treatments.

Comment: Do the homework; question everything.